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How Your Child Heals: An Inside Look at Common Childhood Ailments

by Christopher M. Johnson

All children get sick now and then, and most of the time they soon get well. How do they do that? How does it happen? When a mother brings her sick child to the doctor for something trivial, like a runny nose,...


The Science of Drinking: How Alcohol Affects Your Body and Mind

by Amitava Dasgupta

What happens when you drink your favorite cocktail? How does it go from beverage to buzz? Or from buzz to blotto? Here, Dr. Amitava Dasgupta, a practicing toxicologist and researcher in the field of alcohol...


Surviving After Cancer: Living the New Normal

by Anne Katz

There are an estimated 10 million cancer survivors in America, and this number continues to grow every day as more effective treatments become available. Survivors and their families often call this phase of...


Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It

by Rosemary Gibson & Janardan Prasad Singh

Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh weave two hotly-debated issues in American political and economic life: the Medicare program and its future, which is up for grabs, and the growing influence of the...


Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy

by Emily T. Wierenga, Dena Cabrera & Emme

Mom in the Mirror provides insight, support, and the information necessary to help overcome damaging lifestyle habits and self-esteem struggles post-pregnancy. Readers will learn how to improve the way they...


Addicted?: Recognizing Destructive Behaviors Before It's Too Late

by Marilyn Freimuth

Addicted? presents different ways to recognize the early and often subtle signs of addiction-much in the same way we learn to detect the early signs of cancer. But, unlike cancer, where people rush to get treatment...


Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society

by Laura Katz Olson & Donald E. Gelfand

An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique...


Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy: Why Women Settle for One-Sided Relationships

by Jill P. Weber

Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy is directed at those women, including high school and college students, who use sex as a means to achieving intimacy, and who fail miserably in doing so. It shows them how to recognize...


Understanding Alzheimer's: An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers

by M. D. Ali

Understanding Alzheimer’s offers patients and caregivers the kind of cutting-edge information that will allow them to combat this debilitating disease on a number of fronts. The book presents the findings...


Sharing Sadhana: Insights and Inspiration for a Personal Yoga Practice

by Victoria Bailey

Practicing a personal daily yoga practice, or sadhana, has many physical and mental health benefits, but developing that practice can be challenging and confusing at times. Here, the author offers experienced...


Finding and Revealing Your Sexual Self: A Guide to Communicating about Sex

by Libby Bennett

Even today, with an environment of sexual openness, people don't really talk about sex. To the detriment of those who are having sexual difficulty, conversations about sex with partners, healthcare providers,...


Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives

by E. Allison Hagood, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy & M. A. D. Offit

The Parent’s Guide to Vaccines helps readers understand why they should vaccinate. Using the latest science in the field, the authors make it clear exactly why vaccination is the right choice. They also emphasize...


Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches: Developing Champions in Sports and Life

by Ronald E. Smith & Frank L. Smoll

Two seasoned sport psychologists help coaches understand the psychology of young athletes and provide guidelines for winning strategies that benefit athletes in sports and life. They cover issues like motivation,...


Hunger, Thirst, Sex, and Sleep: How the Brain Controls Our Passions

by John K. Young

In this fascinating tour of the way our brains control our most basic drives, John Young takes a small part of the human anatomy and explains its role in the regulation of our basic needs and desires, including...


Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love: Supporting and Caring for Your Partner

by Anne Katz

This book provides spouses and partners of men with prostate cancer with a comprehensive but reader friendly overview of what they need to know to support the man they love as he goes through the cancer journey....


Hypertension and You: Old Drugs, New Drugs, and the Right Drugs for Your High Blood Pressure

by M. J. D. Mann

Most of the 75 million Americans who have high blood pressure need medication to control it, but many are prescribed medication that is wrong for them. Dr. Mann reveals how readers, with the oversight of their...


The Retirement Maze: What You Should Know Before and After You Retire

by Robert Pascale, Louis H. Primavera & Rip Roach

This book looks at retirement beginning before it starts and considers not just the positive rewards of this stage of life but also the attendant emotions, difficulties, and obstacles retirees must face, no...


Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out

by Kirk Mango & Daveda Lamont

Becoming a True Champion offers a path to achieving athletic excellence, longevity, and dignity through the values and hard work that once distinguished athletes as true role models. Providing an antidote to...


Change Happens: When to Try Harder and When to Stop Trying So Hard

by Avrum Weiss

Change Happens is at once an emotionally resonant and stimulating book that will touch a deep chord with readers who are seeking to understand the big and small struggles in their lives and an insightful companion...


Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva

by Debby Herbenick

Although women's genitals have long been shrouded in secrecy and taboo, a recent surge in media attention has encouraged women and men to think about, as well as to talk more openly about, the vagina and vulva....